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Closed to outsiders and plagued by addiction, a Vietnam village tuned its radios to a California preacher. It has bloomed ...

A hippo smacks her lips grazing three metres from my tent at 3am. At campfire breakfast, a leopard breezily strides past.

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Right at the top there are intricate cornices – decorative fittings between the wall and the edge of the roof – which were ... is dimly-lit and dotted with thatched cottages as well as reeds ...

But if she could magically create her model locale, it would be somewhere ... “I’m seeing beautiful timber houses and perhaps even thatching on the roof,” she imagines of her ideal neighborhood.

When Brazil’s military dictatorship established the park in 1981, it took as its model the National Park ... then continued on to the thatched-roof house where Souza’s wife had grown up.